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浙江省温州中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题
Honesty is a virtue, and telling a lie is morally wrong. But how can you know if someone is ? The answer is, they're probably not. Traditional economics says that people are rational beings who will lie if it is their advantage. A recent university study has shown that, actually, we're pretty honest ―especially we're at home.
Researchers in Germany phoned people at home and asked them to toss a coin. There was a strong financial incentive (激励) to fake the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participant would receive money or a gift voucher, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get . Because they were on the phone, they knew there was no of getting caught if they lied. And yet people revealed the truth despite that they (receive) nothing. Over hundreds of tosses a coin will land tails-up roughly 50% of the time. In this study over half the people (55.6%) asked said that the coin landed heads-up. Most of them didn't pursue the reward at the of honesty.
Previous studies had found that people were more dishonest. In those laboratory studies 75% of people, (include) some who faked the results, reported a winning coin and claimed a reward. So the research team guesses it's being in our own home makes us play fair. , what motivates people to do so remains unclear.
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